Laskar Jihad warriors
Posted on 04/27/2004 11:49:05 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Muslim militants in eastern Indonesia burned down several hundred homes in an overnight attack on a mainly Christian area where 26 people were killed in three days of fighting.
The attacks on Christians in Maluku province, once known as the Spice Islands, continues with no end in sight, according to the Washington, D.C.-based human rights group International Christian Concern.
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On Monday, several hundred homes of Christians were burned down in the Tanah Lapang Kecil and Batugantung neighborhoods of Ambon, the provincial capital.
The attack began at about 3 a.m. and continued into the afternoon hours until all of the homes were destroyed, ICC said.
According to news reports, government buildings have been abandoned and taken over by unidentified snipers using the rooftops to scout victims, including several policemen who have been killed in the past few days.
Maluku, which has been about half Christian and half Muslim, came under attack between 1999 and 2002 from a radical Islamic group called Laskar Jihad, or Army of Holy Warriors, which aimed to make Indonesia an Islamic state.
As WorldNetDaily reported last year, the group has continued to operate despite formally announcing it had disbanded.
Many of its members have joined the al-Qaida-linked terror network Jemaah Islamiah, blamed for the 2002 Bali bombings and last year's suicide attack on the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta.
According to the Australian Associated Press, the latest violence began when members of the region's small Christian separatist Republic of South Maluku marched through Ambon to mark the 54th anniversary of a failed independence bid.
Indonesia has the largest Muslim population in the world, with more than 180 million. A minority supports the radical Islamic parties that share the aim of converting the nation into an Islamic state, analysts say.
In response to the march, the AAP said, Muslim gangs torched houses and churches, and set fire to a local Christian University and United Nations offices.
Several people also were hacked to death with machetes by the mobs, AAP reported, before hundreds of troops from Jakarta arrived to try to quell the attacks.
Under Indonesia's former leader in the 1970s and 1980s, Suharto, Muslims were sent to Maluku to dilute the secessionist movement.
The separatist leaders called for international intervention to stop the fighting while Christian leaders in Jakarta appealed to the central government.
The leader of the radical Muslim Brotherhood, Habib Husein al-Hubsyi, threatened earlier this week to send 7,000 holy warriors to the province.
An important point that I don't think most people grasp quite yet. Or perhaps people realize it, but just don't want to state it openly in so many words, because it is so alien to our understanding.
That's what it comes down to. How can there be any good muslims when they worship an evil, jealous, murdering pedophile ---- and there were then and are alternatives to that? They chose evil to follow.
If that was a mosque destroyed in Palestine by the Israelis, or a Synagogue destroyed in France by Moslem thugs, this news would have been first page news in all the mainstream media. On the other hand just simply f-ck the Christians! Who gives a sh*t about their churches, or their death. The US is in Kosovo to protect the Moslems! How in the heck this crap can make sense to the American public? When are we going to learn that Moslems will never love us? Bush needs to reverse that shameful Clinton war in Bosnia and Kosovo. Arm the Serbs, and let them push these bastards back to Turkey.
There is a stupid American city in Michigan, which is allowing these Moslem bastards to scream at 4 am on loudspeakers that THERE IS NO GOD BUT ALLAH! Forget the separation of church and state, this crap is made to be enforced on the stupid Christians. You cannot ring your church bells in the middle of the day, but the Moslems can wake the entire town up with their loudspeakers announcing hey Infedels, there is no god but Allah!
Perhaps people are beginning to get it.
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